Published Saturday, October 29, 2011, OK personal/derivative use; link lovethatimage.artsquadgraphics.com.
Apple on my tree
We have two columnar apple trees, about six feet (two meters) tall and two feet wide at most. They bear full-size apples! With apples, you must have another tree for pollination, so you need two trees, or a neighbor with an apple tree. The trees never get much bigger, so you can have them in pots. We used to have them in big pots on our deck, but when we moved to this house we put them in the ground, and they are happy. This year my hand-pollination efforts, and the plastic sandwich bags against pests, paid off well, and we have a bumper crop. Time for apple sauce!
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that’s a beautiful apple – I want to take a bite out of it! happy weekend to you Sara.
A healthy, delicious looking apple! I was intrigued by your comment on sandwich bags! Cover each one???
Yes, Gemma, cover each one. I use little non-zip sandwich bags when the apples are an inch or so big, after the June drop. You can cut a corner off the bottom of the bag, slip it over the apple’s stem, letting the bottom just be open. Then you fold the bag snugly and staple closed. It doesn’t matter if it’s too neat. Apparently, this prevents bugs from damaging the fruit. My mother actually taught me this in the 60s and I remember helping do an entire (small) backyard appletree. I understand that little “footies” or knitted thin nylon peds can be used as well, but sandwich bags are so very inexpensive. This works like a charm. It’s amazing!
Love the close-up of the apple, Sara. I can almost taste it. It looks like a Mac, but there are so many new varieties I could easily be wrong.
Speaking of wrong, I think I spelled your name incorrectly on my last comment. Apologies if so.
Kay, Alberta, Canada
An Unfittie’s Guide to Adventurous Travel
mmmm; it looks good enough to eat Sarah. I’m almost ready to pick it off the monitor!
Perhaps that apple is lurking in the shadows because it doesn’t want to go into the sauce pot!
SHADOW SHOW
Shadows creeping through the land,
Shadows dark on every hand—
If they should begin to glow,
You had better run, you know!
© 2011 by Magical Mystical Teacher
Shadows here and here
Oh, the apple alone looks fantastic…so yummy. I love the shadows in the picture. I wish we had an apple tree. I always read on blogs about all the fall apples and wish we had one or at the very least a orchard close…but we don’t. Have a great weekend.
Great apple.
Sydney – City and Suburbs
Lovely composition. Beautiful apple! 🙂
A lucious looking Shadow Shot. Yum!
THAT is a delicious-looking apple!
Lovely macro of your apple on the tree.